Like a Haagen Dazs ice cream pop | Damsels in Distress (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 16)

book: Damsels in Distress (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 16) | Joan Hess

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	• Damsels in Distress (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 16) Joan Hess St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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Dansels in Distress (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 16)

Joan Hess is a national treasure; her writing is humorous, mysterious, and insightful, her characters interesting and delightful, and her stories are well-designed to guide the reader effortlessly through the heroine's outlandish adventure from casual exposition to exciting finale.

I have enjoyed every wonderful one of her Claire Malloy and Arly Hanks series, and when I have gone back later and read them again they were just as entertaining as they were the first time. That, I must say, elevates them above the field of "Popular Books" to the more rarified catagory of "Literature."

From Claire's agonized (and agonizing) teen-age daughter Caron, and Caron's faithful sidekick Inez, to the wild and weird Buchanan family that surrounds Sheriff Arly as she dutifuly tries to solve the latest intriguing mystery, Joan Hess's characters capture the reader's imagination and admiration.

Her novels are a lot like potato chips; you can't read just one!

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Like a Haagen Dazs ice cream pop

Another deliciously deviant Claire Malloy mystery! Lots of interesting characters, plot twists, and colorful insults. A load of fun!

A Renaissance Fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville Arkansas, which is not the sort of news that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloy?s heart racing. But with Claire?s daughter, Caron, being the perpetually petulant teenager that she is, and her fiancé, Police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, away, she finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the group putting on the fair.

Stranger still: A Ren Fair volunteer has just been found burned in the wreckage of a rented home. Who is this woman, and why haven?t any of her associates ever met her in the flesh? When the fair is set to open, tensions expose the dark secrets and malevolent schemes that lurk beneath the surface. Now, with Claire?s dreams of a blissful wedding hanging in the balance, she has no choice but to fling herself into the battle and match wits with the killer?

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